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W. B. Yeats: A Life Volume II: The Arch-Poet 1915-1939 (Wb Yeats a Life) by Foster, R. F. (Robert Fitzroy), 1949- is a work of literary fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Volume 1: In the first authorized biography of Yeats to appear in over fifty years, leading Irish historian R.F. Foster travels beyond Yeats's towering image as arguably the century's greatest poet to restore a real sense of Yeats's extraordinary life as Yeats himself experienced it. In the first volume of this definitive biography, Foster covers the poet's first fifty years, bringing new light to bear on Yeats's heroic and often ruthless efforts to invent himself as a poet and public figure. Drawn from a fascinating archive of personal and contemporary documents with the cooperation of surviving members of the Yeats family, it dramatically alters long-held assumptions about the poet's background, his relationship with Maud Gonne and other women, and his roles in the great cultural and political upheavals that transformed Ireland in his lifetime. This brilliant account of the public and private lives of William Butler Yeats illuminates not only the wellspring of his artistic vision, but the modern Irish identity he helped to create. - Publisher. Volume 2: The first volume in Roy Foster's magisterial biography of W.B. Yeats was hailed as "a work of huge significance" (The Atlantic M

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Author

Foster, R. F. (Robert Fitzroy), 1949-

Publisher

OXFORD UNIV PRESS; Oxford University Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780585221465

Category

work of literary fiction

Subjects

Memoir, Literary Fiction, Philosophy

Rating

4.41 / 5 (45 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14